Every time you have a fight with your spouse or your kids, you feel angry, your face gets red, your heart start pounding hard, and you even get a headache. If you take your blood pressure at that time, it will be alarmingly high.
As our emotion gets intense, our blood pressure shoots up. This is a natural reaction and once your fear or anger subsides, your blood pressure will return to normal levels. More often than not, high blood pressure is only diagnosed when it remains consistently high over a prolonged period of time.
The only way to know is to have it checked on a routine basis, once every couple of years as a bare minimum. If you have any of the following symptoms, you may indeed suffer from hypertension, or high blood pressure. Be aware you could also have high blood pressure without any of these symptoms; that's why it's so important to check your blood pressure regularly.
Dizziness Chest pain Headaches Shortness of Breath Blurred Vision or other visual abnormalities
People in the traditional medical system say that roughly 95%of high blood pressure is from unknown causes, and it is called essential hypertension. Such a big percentage is very alarming, but you can do something about it.
There are risk factors you can control and those you cannot. Examples of risk factors you can't control include your heredity, your age, and your race. The older you get, the greater your risk for developing high blood pressure.
Most commonly, hypertension occurs in men between thirty-five and fifty years old. In women, it commonly occurs after menopause. Also, if a family member has it, your risk of getting it is increased.
Your race also contributes to your chances of getting hypertension. African Americans have a higher tendency of developing it earlier and more frequently than Caucasians. You cannot control those risk factors, and you cannot do anything to change them.
But there are many areas you do have control over that have a direct impact on whether you'll develop high blood pressure. Eating too much salt, excess alcohol, sedentary lifestyle, obesity, smoking and stress all contribute to the development of high blood pressure. How many of those risk factors do you have?
High blood pressure, if left unchecked and untreated can lead to more serious health problems with long-term consequences, like brain, heart, and kidney damage. The eyes can be damaged as well if fragile blood vessels erupt in that area. Some of the dangerous health conditions that can develop because of high blood pressure include:
Irregular heartbeats, called arrhythmias Heart attack or brain attack (known more commonly as a stroke) Chronic kidney disease, ultimately resulting in kidney failure, requiring dialysis or transplant Hardening of the arteries, called atherosclerosis CHF - Congestive heart failure, a condition in which your heart becomes too weak to be efficient at pumping your blood.
The conventional way of treating hypertension is thru aggressive drug therapy, intended to push down your blood pressure, but with numerous side effects. However, more often than not, they do not even get the blood pressure down because like I said earlier, 95% of the causes of high blood pressure is unknown.
But I do so I've created a remarkable High Blood Pressure Program designed to drive down your blood pressure like what medicines do but without all the side effects.
The exercises are simple and takes very little time to learn and even less time to do. This program is a natural way to lower your blood pressure and helps you handle the stress that's so often the reason for your blood pressure problems. You can find out more about this amazing program here
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This post was written by Christian Goodman on August 12, 2009
